“Right. In other words, when elephants fly,” he said, with a smirk and moved the cleaned off dishes into the dishwasher.
“Actually, it"s was better tonight,” I assured him in a low voice.
He smiled. “You think so?”
“Definitely. You didn"t come to blows,” I teased.
“Didn"t come to—” He caught my joke and shook his head with a chuckle. “Cute, Lainey. Cute.”
I helped my aunt with the rest of the dishes and silverware on the table, meanwhile Uncle Ed was busy humming to himself in the living room. I could hear a bit of clinking from that direction and wondered what he could be up to.
“Uncle Ed, did you find the candles?” my aunt asked as we went back to the dining room to retrieve other place settings on the table.
“I did. And found some old scotch as well,” he said, sounding happy for
